25-09-2021, 06:55 AM
sdaonline post_id=42003 time= user_id=1185 Wrote:I can't find what it was but I read somewhere something like that the voltage of TVC's lighting changed at this time and was never put back afterwards.
The mains voltage was reduced during that period, so lamps etc were dimmer, kettles would have taken longer to boil etc. Studio lighting would also have been affected, but in those days of incandescent lamps the only way to restore the light levels might have been to use European spec (220v) rather than UK spec (240v) lamps?
I remember the 84/85 miners strike, and similar reductions in voltage and frequency. My bedroom clock that used the 50Hz mains as its timing refernce would lose a minute during the day, and regain it overnight. Normally it would lose and regain about 20 seconds over a 24 hour period